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How can I use OS-BS or System Selector to boot Solaris/x86?

April 26, 2017boot Selector Solaris system x86

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How can I use OS-BS or System Selector to boot Solaris/x86?

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Grab OS-BS [a free boot manager distributed with FreeBSD] from: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/osbs135.exe Or (newer) from: http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf/os-bs.html Assuming you’ve already got Linux installed and enough free space for Solaris, go ahead and install the latter. Solaris then becomes the Active partition. Follow that installation with OS-BS and configure to “set startup id”, which changes the Active partition on-the-fly. OS-BS comes in a newer, commercial version, that I use, called System Selector in the US, De’marreur in France, and Boot Manager elsewhere. See http://www.BootManager.com/ System Selector needs a small FAT or FAT32 partition to install on. You also need to either boot a version of DOS or Windows to read the install files on the CD-ROM drive. Note that this partition doesn’t need to be bootable or active–it is only used to hold files used by System Selector. System Selector replaces the previous boot block in the MFT and boots directly from th

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Grab OS-BS [a free boot manager distributed with FreeBSD] from: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/osbs135.exe Or (newer) from: http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf/os-bs.html Assuming you’ve already got Linux installed and enough free space for Solaris, go ahead and install the latter. Solaris then becomes the Active partition. Follow that installation with OS-BS and configure to “set startup id”, which changes the Active partition on-the-fly. OS-BS comes in a newer, commercial version, that I use, called System Selector in the US, De’marreur in France, and Boot Manager elsewhere. See http://www.BootManager.com/ Sysetm Selector needs a small FAT or FAT32 partition to install on. You also need to either boot a version of DOS or Windows to read the install files on the CD-ROM drive. Note that this partition doesn’t need to be bootable or active–it is only used to hold files used by System Selector. System Selector replaces the previous boot block in the MFT and boots directly from th